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Extraft from Mr. Giles's Speech in the Senate of the U. S. on the 23d Jan. on the question of palFing the Bill for fitting out &c. all the frigates be longing to the United States. ««Mr. Giles faid he fhould avail himfelf of that occafion to confutation; and that Cor.grefs might poffes that power was certainly the primary induce ment to the formation of the conllitution. “ It is known that the ineffi ciency of the commercial regu lations of the feveral hates, and be explicit in hating his views of j the extremely inconvenient in the quehion of peace or war. | flnence of the confuting fyf- bte was induced to do this be- j terns of the different hates tip- caufe his views upon that quef- : on each other, fird fuggehed tion had been mifunderhood, or 1 the neceflirv of a general go- at leah mifreprefented to the vernment, for the purpofe of public, and pretend to be deriv- | regulating commerce by one ed from converfations, Ik other ■ uniform and efficient fydem ; of the mod amiable manner', of correct department and refined undent Hiding riefeeuded Irom virtuous k refpeftable parents. From the Columbian. fources of information eaffly to be misconceived, and more eafy to be mifreprefented ; and for which he did not feel himfelf at a'Jl refponfible. He had always been in the habit of frankty ex- poling his views without refewe in his place on that floor upon all fubjefts, when required by the duties of his hation; he fhould now do fo, and for their correftnefs in that place, he ac knowledged himfelf to be ref- ponfible to the public. I “ He laid, with refpeft to peace or war, it fhould be ob- ferved—that in a difpute be tween nations, war was at the option of either party ; peace was not—peace required the confent ot both—Whilft, there fore, war may be in our power, peace may be beyond our con trol. Great-B; itain may make war upon us ; and it is our mod imperious duty to be prepared to meet it. He faid, as to the probability of that event, he had no certain data to guide his judgment, but if it be even un certain, preparations ought to be made to meet it with effect & advantage. lie was, therefore in favor of every preparation both by land and by fea, to meet war; but he confidered the of courfe the power to regu late commerce may be confi- dered as the foundation of the conllitution itfeif. The people of the U. S. have delegated a Gongrels charged with the fa- cred trull of protecting and exercifmg this trreat conditu. tional power. How then can that Congrefs abandon it to the exercife of a foreign pow- er, without an almoft treafon- sble infidelity to the people, by whom they are delegated ? G. B itain not only claims, but actually exercilts the power of regulating, and even of ref training and prohibiting your commerce at pleal’ure ; and fo far has flie carried the exer cife of this power, as to fub- llitu'e her own illicit commerce in the place of your lawful, but prohibited commerce ! Yes, in utter contempt of your rights and authority, and in utter difregard of her own char after, Ihe is now in the habit of granting licences to her own fubjefts to com nit treafon againll the common law of the land, by autharif ing them to carry on an il!i it commerce with her enemy, in lubditution of your lawful commerce. He believed it ini- w A R. Bella, horrida Bella! Of all th» artificial evils with which civilized man is curfed, war is the moll alHifting. Its principles are repugnant to the bed feelings of the human heart, and reafon revolts at its horrors. Why then all this ra vage and deftruftiorf'? Wliy is the civilized world made ail a- celdatna and a common charnel houfe, and humanity covered with the habiliments of woe ? Why is man the mod inveterate enemy of man, and why does rational beings tliirll for each Other’s blood ? I anfwer with the poet, One murder makes a villain, Millions, a hero. Princes are pie.i j Tu kill, and numbers fanftify the crime. Ah ! why will kings forget that they are men ? And men tint they are brethren ? Why delight In human facrifice ? Why burfi; the ties Of. nature, that fhould knit their fouls together In one loft bond of amity and love ? They yet (till breathe deftruftion, dill go on Inhumanly ingenuous, to find out New pains for life—new terrors for the grave -Still mon- qtie&on of making preparations pollible for the U. States to very different Submit long to this unexam- j pled flute of things, arid there-i fore that they ought, mult ere long, go to war to nflert and maintain their violated tights, their injured iriterelis, &: ire. if no other expedient will an- . fwer the cbjeft.” Murder. — A mod dreadful aft of cruelty was perpetrated in King & Queen county, V. on the 18th uit. John Roane, Jun. living within a mik-ol the court j houfe, murdered his amiable Ag nes, in the prime of life, and to whom he had not been married three months.—On the morn- ling of the day on which this bloody deed was committed, Roane appeared uncommonly affeftionate to his unfufpefling : vifthn, and leaving her, wt nt to Mr. I loonies, an attorney, to make his uiii. Mr. II. rallied him on fuch a vifit, young and healthy as he was, but he had it made, returned, and immedi ately cut ifs wife's throat. The negroes alarmed the overfeer, k he the neighbors, who ioun.1 Mrs. R. dead, weltering in her gore, and her wretched hufb md, lying befide her dead di unk ! When he recovered his lenses, he afked repeatedly for his dear Agnes, and on being anfwered Ihe was in the next room, he require repetition here, the real < laid, “ Tei /be is dead. I did it ” eharafter of the difpute relpeft- An inquett was held on the ing commercial lights when body, and the murderer was flopped of all its difguifes and committed to J lil An exam- embellifh'ments, confills in th'S : ining court was held, and while whether the U. States or G. | the depofitions were taking, he Britain fliall regulate the com- laid, “it was needlcfs to examine to meet war, a thing, from a qui (lion to declare w'ar, or to make war—fo much foy that reforting to the one hss always been confidered as the bed expedient to avoid the other alternative—whilft, therefore, he was againll declaring or making war under prefent cir- cumftances and at this time, he was in favor of preparations to meer it, which might hereafter render a refort to it unneccffary. But he would at the fame time, fay explicitly, that if G Britain would continue her courle of holtilities againll us, he would at a convenient and proper time, be decidedly in favor of war, rather than fubmit to her law less, pretentions and aggreflions. tie believed, that rather than fubmit, the U. States ought, mud and will go to war for the prefervation and maintenance of their rights, etc. He drew this conclufion with confidence and certainty, from the charac ter of the difpute between the two countries. What is the leal eharafter of that difpute, particularly as it refpt.fts com mercial rights ? Independently of aggrtflions vitally affecting the eharafter and intered of the U. States, continued without a- tojnement or relaxation, and which are two well known to nierce of > the U. States ? Or rather, whether the U. States fliall regulate their own com merce, confidently with the law of nations ?—The right to regulate commerce, is perhaps ihe mod important right con fided to Cungtefs under the witnefles. as he confefkd him- felf guilty.” Previous to his marriage, Roane had frequently intimated that lie would dedroy himfelf, and it is fuppofed. that he committed this horrid aft to accelerate his dreadful purpofe. The decoded Was' a woman Artificers for death I archs dream Of univeifa! empire, growing up 1 prom univerfal ruin. Blaft ihe de- fign, Gar.A r God of hosts ! nor let thy creatures foil i Unpitied viftims at Ambition’s lhrine 1 i Yes, the ambition of tilled def- pots and the fuperdiiion ol mi- I tree! knaves have been the caufe of the calamities of war. For file boundary of a fea, a river or a mountain could never make mankind each other’s enemies ; , but fuch deeds are dill done, and will continue, until free I dotn waves her banners over a I benighted world. The foul of I the philanthropid fiickens at the details of bloody battles, and the man of reafon heaves a figh at the nudnefs of the human race. Were all governments like our own, con (lit need in ligiti- inate principles, the din of arms would ceafe, and the whole hu man family would embrace each other as brethren j but, aLs 1 we cannot even indulge a hope that (his happy era is at hand, for (lie bloody flag of ambition is ft ill unfurled, and felf-dcfence may (liortly compel us to raife the hatchet and uulheache the (word. Should this be our fate, my countrymen, you mull be convinced that our virtuous ex ecutive have exerted all their energies to avoid its horrors. But fliould the infults and ag greflions of European defpots bring us to this iffue, we can i boldly appeal to that Being, i “ who rides in the whirlwind k [ direfts the ftorm,” for the juf. i tice of our caufe. As one man | mull the nation aroufe to arms, i and fwear at the holy altar of freedom, which was cemented by the bell blood of our fathers, “ that we will never give up the fanguinary conteft until we have obtained indemnity for the pall and fecurity for the future.’’ FHILO-THROPCS. like torrents meeting in a narrow valley! You would imagine it impoffible for them to get thro’ —yet all pafson their way with out flop or moleftution. Were each man to proceed exaftly in the line in which he fet out, he could not move many paces without encountering an other full in his track. They would Alike againll each other, fall back, pulli forward again, block up the way for themlclves , and thofe after them, and throw J the whole (treet into confufion. All this is avoided by every | man’s yielding a little. Inftead of advancing fquare, ftiff, with arms (luck out, every one, who knows how to walk the flreets, glides along, his arms dole, his body oblique and | flexible, his track gently wind- ( ing, leaving now -a few inches on tills fide, now on that, fo as | to pals and be palT.-d, without touching in the fmallelt poftble f'pice. He puthes no one into the channel, nor goes into it himfelf. By mutual accommodation, the path,though narrow, holds them all. He goes neither much fader nor much flower than thofe who tro in the fame direction. In the lirtl cafe he would elbow, in the fecond he would be elbowed. 1 f any accidental dop arifes, from a carriage crofting, a calk rolled, a pick-pocket detefted, or the like, he dors not increafe the bultlc by rulhing into the mi id of it, but checks his pace, and patiently waits for its re moval.—Like this is the march of life. In our progrefs through the world, a rhouland things Hand continually in our way. Some people meet us full in the face with oppofite opinions and in clinations. Some Hand before us in our purluit of pleafure or intered, and others follow' clofe upon our heels. Now we ought in the full place to confider that ' ihe road is as free for one as for another; and therefore we have no right to expert that perfons fliould go out of their way to let us pafs, any more than we out of ours —Then, if we do not mutually yield and accommodate a little, it is clear that we mud ail (land dill or be thrown in to a perpetual confufion of jull- ling. If we are all in a hurry to get on as lad as pMfible to feme point of pleafure or intered in our view, and do not occafion. ally hold back, when the crowd gathers and angry contentions arife, we fliall only augment the tumult, without advancing our own progrels. On the whole, it is out buftnefs to move on wards, (teadily but quietly, ob- llrufting others as little as polfi- ble, yielding a little to this man’s pnjuJices, and that man’s de- fires, and doing every thing in our power to make the journey of life eafy to all our fellow tra vellers, as well as to ourfelves HOLT'S ferry. ALL perfons travelling on horte back, may crol’s at my FERRY tor half price. Thaideus Holt. March 13. 1810. Marshal's Sale. WILL BE SOLD on the firft Tuefday in May next, between t 'C ufuat hours, at the Market- Houfe in the Town of Sparta, the following property, vrz.. TWQ acres of Land, with a (lore houfe thereon, in the county of Greene, laying on the road leading from Greenf- borough to Auguda, adjoining of Win. Huckerby and Wm. Harris—alfo one cotton G n 88 faws. Executed as ih. pro perty of Robert Filher, by an execution iffued out of the Fede ral Court, in favor of the U. States.— f orms cafli. A. Abercrombit, d.m n o. March 11, 1810. 5< -•■!» Sheriff’s Sale, Postponed. 1 l] ILL BE SOLD on the firjl Tuefday in April next, at the Market Houfe in the Town of M iliedgevillc, between the ufuat hours. Two Negroes Elijah Sc Gb(T- gow, levied on as the property of Jeremiah Gardner, to I'atisly Peleg Rogers’ execution egaiiilt him, property pointed out by Gardner. ALSO. ! Four hundred ami five acres of Land, known by ihe lots N° ; 14Tand 162, in the fird dis of Baldwin county, levied on as the property of Noah Dodiidge, to falisly Stephen Bilhop’s and other executions againll him, i the properly pointed out by tin; plaintiff’s attorney. Conditions Cafh. Philip Cook, s. b. c. March 13. 1810 Gioxai.t, Jones County. HERE AS John Brooks fen has applied to me for letters of Adminiltration on the ellate of Braxton Jourdan, deceafed. Tlitfe arc therefore to cite and admonilh ail and lingular the kindred and creditors ot the faid deceafed, to file their ob jections, if any they have in my j office on or before the fifth day of April next, otherwise letteis will be granted him Given under my hand and foal this 5th March, 1810. Roger McCarthy, c. c. o. * wMimwawnririfc-' wit rimatrci.^nmin NO TICE. ^V^HE Commilfioners for the U county of Jones, n qued all perfons indebted for Lots purchafed in the Town of Clin- N0 1 I C E. A LL perfons having any demands againft the eftate of Richard Grc u. of Walhington co. dec. are nqueded to render in their accounts properly at- teded, to Major David Black- fhear, and thole indebted to Lid edate to make immediate pay ment. JOHN H. BRYAN. March 1 3. Adm'r. A NOT 1 C E. I.L perfons having any demands iigaiuft the tftate ton, to come forward and make A e _, j UX ’. L ^ ec immediate payment, as longer indulgence cantiot be given. WALKING THE STREETS. Have you never walked thro’ the flreets of a great city ? What fhoals of people pour- ing ill;from oppofite quarters, Hugh M. Conttr, "J Adam Carson, Hilary Pratt, ? ohn Cocke, hornas 11 kite. N. B. A further number of Town Lots will be fold on the fird Monday in May next, at the Court lloufe in Clinton. Terms nude known on the day . of Sale. March 13, 1810, ^Ex’rs. are requeded to render them to the Executors within the time preferihed by law, and thofe being indebted to faid edate, to make immediate payment. D. Blackjhear, Jas. Mason, Mevxb 13, 1810. 50-6 w JS L AN K DEEDS, For Sale at this Office.